I'm thinking about completely removing non-free software from my life. What will I miss the most? Flash will be the killer, since some services I like use Flash, but oh well.
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Anonymous2015-02-05 5:22
Windows. Linux is complete garbage, from the executable format to the kernel design to the pseudo-Unix philosophy to the hardware support to the users.
Photoshop. Ever tried enlarging your dick in GIMP? Of course not, unless you are a faggot. Enlarging your dick in a gimp? Leave it to the open source community to name their flagshit software after a gay sadomasochistic practice. The name is no misnomer either, if you give your program away for free under the GPL you might as well be Stallman's gimp.
Microsoft Word. Unless you want to ride Oracle's dick and wait for Ellison to sue you for a gazillion dollars in back licensing fees. You could use LibreOffice or whatever the fuck it's called, but you're still using the same garbage the Sun cranked out to show that you could make real programs in Java (while they hoped that everyone ignored that most of the suite wasn't written in Java, and if it were, it would perform like Windows Vista on a TI-82). Libre, as in liberty to use a word processor that willfully ignores the last 15 years in UI design advancements. Just like all other open source shitware, it's going to end up reducing the entire GUI to a single button and expecting you to edit a config file and recompile your kernel to change what it does. Good luck getting any work done.
VMWare. There are a few alternatives put forth by the FLOSS community (odd name, because I haven't met any who showed that they knew how to brush their teeth), but they are all useless. First off there is Xen. Xen's goal is to make you recompile hosts every time you need to update Xen and to use as much resources as possible. Probably a conspiracy to sell more RAM. Next is kEmu. What the fuck is that? Is it something to do with KDE? Moving on is Qemu. Yeah, it does part of what VMWare does, but not even close to a tenth of it. All is good for is emulating Windows for you when some fuckstick decided that he would look smarter if he installed Nigger Linux on a computer you had to use. Then, there's lxvm, and it's use is not to be a good virtual machine, but to cram as many onto the physical hardware as possible so hosts can oversell resource. And to top it all off, I don't even know if it's open source! All I know is that it's garbage and my VPS provider uses it's shittiness as an excuse for why they can't let me mount files as filesystems.